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Composer Deems Taylor conducted some of his own music, managing his pince-nez with one hand, his baton with the other. Efrem Zimbalist fiddled. Then Kate Smith sang the big siren song from Samson & Delilah while Stokowski, a bit unnerved, conducted...
...Pinedo was taking off alone for Bagdad, 6,300 mi. away. The cockpit of his ship, the Santa Lucia, was a museum of gadgets and curious supplies-eight watches, two colored kites, fishing tackle, a stomach pump to draw liquids from six vacuum bottles, a fresh air mask, a siren and water-squirter to wake up the pilot if he dozed. He was going to sit over the oil tank, so that the uncomfortable heat would keep him awake. As he yelled good-by a fanatical gleam...
...Manhattan harbor the Rex, decked with code flags, received flag and siren salutes from liners, ferryboats and tugs, reached her pier amid frenzied cheering. After sounding the Rex's great whistle one last time Captain Tarabotto rushed into his cabin, "I cried like a child!" he said afterward. "I wept for my beloved dead mother that I could not send her news of this great...
...together with a man by throwing stones at him. I'd talk to the Devil himself if I thought there was a chance of making hell cooler. These few fierce local troubles will seem to the rest of the country like some one blowing a fire siren in the midst of a symphony concert!" After his speech General Johnson was invited to take the coal strike into his busy hands, try to settle it before it swept out of the State into the Midwest fields. He agreed. Buttonholing Governor Pinchot...
...while he was "doing the books" for the "Review" that he saved enough money and summened up enough courage to visit Parts, that "siren city" in his mother's eyes. Here under the guidance of will Rothenstein, he saw the world of Manet of the Meulin Rouge and of the restaurant Jupien which demonstrated its aristocratic patronage by a drawing of ladies and gentlemen hanging corenets on a coat-rack instead of hats...